What was the Sphinx? By: Edward Phan D Period Due Dec. 1, 2014 The sphinx is a very peculiar statue people found in Egypt. The Sphinx looked weird, had many theories about when it was built, and was famous because of a famous riddle, called “The Riddle of the Sphinx”. Later, the sphinx would become a very important research site. The sphinx is a strange statue. The sphinx looks like a creature which combined the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh, which is the Egyptian
these things would be needed in the afterlife. The Great Sphinx is a large human-headed lion that was carved from rock. Some believe there were hidden paths and inside the legendary lion, but nothing has been found yet. The Great Sphinx is said to be the protector of the pyramids or the protector of the dead. It is believed he ensures the dead pharaohs make it safely to the afterlife and gives salvation to the dead. The pyramids and the Sphinx were very important monuments to the Ancient Egyptians
person based on information content in speech signal. This paper gives an overview of the speech recognition system and its recent progress of technologies and their algorithms. Also it gives a brief description for six feature extraction techniques: Mel-frequency cepstrum (MFFCs), Neural Network (NN), Gaussian Filtering Model (GMM), Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), The SPHINX Recognizer, the SONIC Recognizer. Finally the objective of this paper is to summarize the feature extraction techniques used in